Proponents proposes laws on the Alzheimer -Advocacy Day

Hartford, Conn. – Connecticut celebrated Alzheimer's day of interest on Wednesday, and people spent the day in State Capitol and in the Hartford legislative office in order to talk about the effects of Alzheimer's disease and share ideas to help the affected people.

Proponents of the Alzheimer Association suggested two invoices – a plan was to create a task force.

“A task force would enable us to bring our Alzheimer plan of our Alzheimer's in Connecticut into the next state phase, to really work with patients and really work with patients and to work with caregivers to improve the quality of life,” said Marissa Crean, lawyer and volunteer.

Proponents also want to make a requirement that insurance companies cover the costs for biomarker tests for potential patients with Alzheimer's disease or any kind of dementia.

“Biomarker tests are something new and very valuable to understand what you can do and slow the progression of the disease,” said Crean.

Studies show that some people are not tested because they cannot afford the costs.

Christine Burnett knows this first hand.

“I met a lot of friends who did not qualify for Medicare in the fifties and early 60s who tried to get a diagnosis, and the longer they wait, the less options they have and the more the disease gets older,” said Burnett.

The disease comes even closer to you.

“I was diagnosed in February 2023,” said Burnett.

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She noticed that something changed in her.

“If I couldn't manage my own email at home, I knew something was wrong. And when I found the bananas with the cereal shells, I had a kind of idea that something was not quite right, ”said Burnett.

She went for her annual wellness check and was tested for cognitive deficiency.

She checked the laboratory results online at home and was destroyed on the other side of her screen.

“It was very difficult. I didn't know how to tell my husband, I didn't know how to tell my children, ”said Burnett.

To help her to tell her children, your doctor recommended the Alzheimer's association and live well in Southington.

“I was able to use their resources to explain things to my family and explain things to me, and so we have had a very close relationship with both places in the past three years,” said Burnett.

Two years after her diagnosis, she does not let Alzheimer define her.

“I still live very well. Yes, I still help to worry about my grandchildren, and they come and stay overnight every few weeks. And I'm driving a little, still not as much as before, ”said Burnett.

She says she may have lost parts of her like her ability to teach sewing classes, but she has won so much more.

“I won a new purpose. My goal is to ensure that other people who have to do with this disease have the resources they need. And that is one of the things that are so important in legislation, ”said Burnett.

If you have any questions about Alzheimer's or dementia, you can call the Alzheimer's Association around the clock at 800-272-3900.

Cayla Cade is a reporter at FOX61 News. It can be achieved ccade@fox61.com Follow your X And Instagram.

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